is represented by the "Love Letter" in the mirror world, Iwai Shunji has constructed the memories and explorations of several pairs of twins in the mirror world through the ultimate image expression, appealing to the hazy youth's memory image, and at the same time, it is closely related to social reality. Connected, a metaphor for social issues, and a reflection of reality under the visual beauty of Japanese films.
Coincidentally, "Veronica's Double Life" is also a classic film of the twin flower theme. In the context of Western culture, it tells the different life trajectories of exotic twin flowers.
1. Japanese interpretation of serious topics
Among the many types of Japanese films, literary films are particularly prominent, which are closely related to the traditional Japanese culture. The culture of material sorrow originates from the Tale of Genji, a more poignant literary work that shows the twists and turns of fate, and talks about topics such as human nature, nature, and ethnicity.
This aesthetic has always been imprinted in the soul of the Japanese, thus forming the localized narrative style of Japanese literary films. In "Love Letter", the director interspersed with a regretful love story about the profound topics of self and life and death. Every character and every emotion in the film is magnified, and the interweaving of these emotions vividly interprets the thoughts, confusions and struggles in life, making the viewers have a common sense with them.
This is the charm of Japanese movies, which can reveal emotions delicately and inadvertently touch the hearts of audiences. The same topic has been interpreted differently in the West. After entering the capitalist society, the West has paid more attention to topics such as self-reflection.
People constantly reflect on and explore the survival value and destiny of human beings. Unlike Japanese culture, Western culture is influenced by religious beliefs and believes in the power of gods. Hegel believes that when human beings face a specific moral decision, there will be a contradiction, and this contradiction will be expressed through the release of desire or passion.
is just like the sexually explicit scenes in Veronica's Double Life. This scene uses the enrichment of the body to reflect on the emptiness of the heart, trying to show the audience a scene where the subject is outside the reality. The director expresses the unspeakable lack through symbolic intervention, corresponding to the theme of self-seeking and predicament.
Compared with the more restrained expression of "Love Letter", the camera language of "Veronica's Double Life" is bold and naked, and many unspeakable truths are shown in the film with exaggerated and explicit shots.
By comparison, it can be seen that, influenced by the national cultural accumulation and historical implication, under the condition of similar themes, the Japanese lens language pays more attention to the detailed emotional description, and the expression is restrained and reserved, maintaining the localized characteristics, reflecting the Japanese Unique view of national culture.
Both films are filled with the topic of death, and Eastern and Western films also write about death in different ways. For example, death in "Love Letter" leads to hope.
Through death we get to see Japan appreciate the beauty of cherry blossoms falling. The death of Fujii (male) started the whole story, and it was also the medium for Hiroko and Fujii (female) to be redeemed. His death did not end, but re-illuminated the future of others.
This description of death coincides with the spirit of Bushido unique to Japan. But in Veronica's Double Life, death plays up the sadness. The twins in
all grow up on a set track, make up for each other, and interpret a perfect story together. When one of the two twin flowers falls, death inherits the broken life of the other twin.
epilogue, France's Veronica finally seesWhen she arrives at another one in the world, she fills the gap in her heart and ends with a happy ending of redemption.
Therefore, behind the two films, even if they are based on different cultural and era backgrounds, for the inner world of the self, the objective world is only the background, and we must face up to the meaning of our existence and feel the essence of ourselves and the true meaning of life.
To sum up, although there are cultural differences between Eastern and Western film and television, the common purpose of various cultures is to affirm the value of human beings.
Japanese films reflect the meticulousness and elegance of oriental aesthetics in their descriptions. While absorbing Western technology, they maintain a localized perspective and choose to make films with their own rhythm and angle. Conform to the trend of the times and display the cultural heritage of the country.
is precisely the delicate description of Japanese-style films, which gives the viewers a multi-angle view and triggers the viewers to reconsider the problem of self-existence.
2. Interpretation of mirror language in cultural dialogues
In the perspective of globalization, Eastern and Western cultures are developing in diversity, and Eastern and Western films are gradually converging. New films from Japan and other Asian countries emerged in the 1990s by riding the "Asian style" trend, and gradually opened up a situation where Eastern and Western films coexist in the sense of cultural dialogue.
With the expansion of the film industry in the international scope, the western film and television industry has influenced many fields of eastern film. While drawing on Westernized thinking, new Japanese films go deep into the cultural core of the nation, retain the local cultural characteristics, and integrate the expression of thinking and emotion that is unique to the country into the expression of images in the era of globalization.
Since then, films with strong oriental aesthetics have entered the field of film of the era, and Japanese films have also established their own Japanese style due to their own cultural characteristics. According to Siegfried, "the most popular means of cinema, as such, cannot but succumb to the enormous pressure of social and cultural conventions, collective preferences, and deeply ingrained habits of appreciation." The national spirit of the nation has a distinct national style. Under this logical starting point, taking "Veronica's Double Life" and "Love Letter" as examples, the two films gave different feedbacks and showed different styles when expressing the emotions of life and death and love in the world. theme elaboration.
investigate the reason, it comes from many objective factors. For example, the two are based on different cultural backgrounds, social status, values and film development history, etc. Various factors affect the social value of films to a certain extent. In Japan, the main audience for film production is the domestic audience. Director
is familiar with local people's hearts, and his analysis of human nature is profound and ordinary. It's like telling an ordinary story to the audience in an ordinary time period, but giving the audience a mental shock and shock.
So in a sense, Japanese movies pay more attention to the spiritual concern of domestic audiences. In other words, Japanese films are more inspiring than commercial.
Secondly, Japanese films pay more attention to artistry and viewing. In terms of artistic expression, they adhere to the director's artistic concept, while borrowing a soothing, lively, narrative-free style to express extremely profound humanity and emotion.
Japanese movies are not like European and American blockbusters, which give people strong visual feedback with their ups and downs. Instead, they use weak and continuous power to integrate external events into the mood of the film, using truth and triviality to move people's hearts and intrigue.
To sum up, as far as "Love Letter" is concerned, this film, as always, follows the fresh style of Japanese youth films. From the perspective of color, the director used backlighting and overexposure to outline, and the pictures are mostly cool or warm light tones, giving people a healing effect.The spiritual feeling of the book greatly emphasizes the beauty of viewing; the content is based on pure love, focusing on shaping the image of the characters, and indirectly interpreting the deep topics of human emotions through the emotional changes of the characters - the cruelty of reality, the displacement of fate. The
film tells the story slowly and delicately, abandoning one-dimensional preaching and self-pity, leaving room for the audience to imagine and think, subtly transferring emotions, and giving the audience care and inspiration. The difference between
is that Western film culture is mostly oriented to the connotation of personal ideology. In films about emotions, mysterious elements are common. Western films apply unknowable fatalism and irrational mysticism to the content expression to enhance the atmosphere of the film.
Under the rigid regulation of Western religions, people generally believe that the soul is a destiny-like existence.
Therefore, telepathic images always appear in Western films, gathering mystical elements such as fate, intuition, precognition, and telepathy. These elements constitute a mysterious and sensual work that brings together the director's unique perception and perspective, reaching directly into the viewer's heart.
has a super-experienced soul belief, and also has a deep understanding and deep thinking about reality. Compared with "Love Letter", "Veronica's Double Life" is visually dominated by dark golden light.
is also a romantic theme, but the picture it presents is bleak and sad, and to a great extent blooms the sense of fate, beauty and mystery of Western films. From the content of
, the clues of the story run through the whole film, and the plots are interlocking, all revolving around the themes of life and death cognition and self-cognition and redemption. Director
conveys a unique Western style of thought, telling how a person pursues his true self in the process of growing up. While pursuing, he cannot avoid the need to give up his true self to a certain extent, and constantly struggle in abandonment and retention. , to achieve the unity of soul and reality.
The theme direction of the film is chosen from the past to the present, from soul to reality, from loneliness to fulfillment, multi-dimensional interpretation of the Western perspective of life and death cognition and individual self-recognition, and face the depths of human nature nakedly, revealing the original meaning of life and death, and giving The audience thinks infinitely deeply.
The film culture industry is not only an artistic and cultural phenomenon and an economic phenomenon, but also an important part of the national or national culture.
Each country and nation has its own unique culture and ethics, and the symbolic meanings are also different. It is precisely in this way that localized films bridge those potential gaps and express the unique understanding and feelings of the nation.
Compared with "Veronica's Double Life", "Love Letter" lacks a lot of philosophical discussion, and more is a long tenderness. When the two delve into the topic of the human self, we can find similar philosophical backgrounds in the film.
At the same time, the two are also mixed with unique thinking that is different from Asia and the West. The subtle commonality of the East is contrasted with the explicit mystery of the West. This sense of difference also enables Eastern and Western films to survive and develop together in the process of dialogue.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-